Essay on the Creative Imagination (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Essay on the Creative Imagination The present work is offered to the reader as an essay or first attempt only. It is not our intention here to undertake a complete monograph that would require a thick volume, but only to seek the under lying conditions of the creative imagination, show ing that it has its beginning and principal source in the natural tendency of images to become objecti fied (or, more simply, 1n the motor elements in herent in the image), and then following it in its development under its manifold forms, whatever they may be. For I cannot but maintain that, at present, the psychology of the imagination is con cerned almost wholly with its part in esthetic crea tion and in the sciences. We scarcely get beyond that, its other manifestations have been occasionally mentioned - never investigated. Yet invention in the fine arts and in the sciences is only a special case, and possibly not the principal one. We hope to show that in practical life, in mechanical, mili tary, industrial, and commercial inventions, in re ligious, social, and political institutions, the human mind has expended and made permanent as much imagination as in all other fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.